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Olympic sexism study: Male athletes have skill and female athletes have luck
TweetAccording to a new study on past television coverage of the Olympics, sports commentators talk about athletes in notably different ways depending on their gender. And by “notably different” I mean “pretty sexist.” The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Delaware, analyzed NBC’s primetime coverage of past games. The main findings: When female [...]
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Why ESPN’s Body Issue could have been great but doesn’t quite succeed